What is this car?

DRZ · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:40

http://www.statichiss.co.uk/27.jpg

Saw this today on the M6 heading home. I know what I think it is, wondering if it strikes the same thought in anyone else!

GSXRMovistar · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:44

MR2 with stick on F40 tat? :confused:

agw_01 · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:45

Yeah, I was just about to say it looks like an F40, albeit with different exhausts.

James_N · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:45

could be a TR7 (i think they use that as a base for the F40 stick on tat too)

-westy- · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:45

The vehicle details for 419 DTC are:

Date of Liability:01 05 2007
Date of First Registration:06 09 1994
Year of Manufacture: 1990
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 3405CC

big engine for an MR2?

DRZ · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:46

GSXRMovistar said:
MR2 with stick on F40 tat?

Could be, but there are clues that it is something else there

EDIT: Year of manufacturer 1990 gives the whole game away, I think

Nozzer · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:46

MrMatteh · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:47

Domo · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:49

It's a kit imo. Missing the 'gill looking' air intakes behind and above the back wheels + as someone said, the exhausts are different.

andi · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:50

I think it might be a...

Nah that'd spoil it

[TW]Fox · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:53

I think it's a Koenig F48, the twin turbo one, personally.

Nozzer · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:55

[TW]Fox said:
I think it's a Koenig F48, the twin turbo one, personally.

As opposed to the non twin turbo F48?

DRZ · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:56

[TW]Fox said:
I think it's a Koenig F48, the twin turbo one, personally.

Without knowing that because Nozzer told you, you would have branded that a replica kit, like so many others

I am trying to find out how many were made. I have a sneaking feeling that this is the rarest car I have ever seen on the road

Domo · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:56

I remember the koenig testarossa from years back. 1000 bhp or something silly :eek:

DRZ · 14 Jun 2006 at 00:58

Nozzer identified it correctly - here is the exact same car!

Nozzer · 14 Jun 2006 at 01:00

It's a 348 underneath all that, by the way.

The_Dark_Side · 14 Jun 2006 at 01:20

Domo said:
I remember the koenig testarossa from years back. 1000 bhp or something silly

wasn't that the car with cockpit adjustable boost?
a large dial on the centre console with 100 bhp increments from 400 BHP all the way upto 1000BHP.

Clarkey · 14 Jun 2006 at 02:02

looks pretty awesome imo, and the engine looks serious with that bigass IC in there

Matt82 · 14 Jun 2006 at 07:07

a guy on the evo website BBS used to have a white konig testarossa, amongst other sick stuff

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=3405CC&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

thats pretty interestings

The_Dark_Side · 14 Jun 2006 at 19:58

Enzo absolutely hated Willi Koenig, trying legal action on more than one occaision.
the official line was, and still is, that Enzo's finest is exactly that....and shouldn't be altered in any way, shape or form.